Nicolas Vionnet
Works by Nicolas Vionnet
46.781895_8.154645, 2016
Oil and collage on unprimed canvas
47.309248_8.779071_pre-studies_5, 2016
Oil and collage on unprimed canvas
47.309248_8.779071_pre-studies_4, 2016
Oil and collage on unprimed canvas
Do Not Call Me Painting Again!, 2014
Industrially printed fabric on canvas, splashes of paint on wall and floor
Full of hot air, 2018
Hot water bottle (thermoplastic resin), Bicycle valve (Sclaverand), cement
221 Reasons To Say No, 2015
Antique scale, 221 nails
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it, 2018
Mincer, rubber cord
Filet vom Reh mit Kartoffelpüree, 2020
Stainless steel rotary whisk, roebuck antlers
Part-Time Beekeeper, 2018
Bee smoker, fire extinguisher hose and horn
Mary-Go-Round, 2016
Antique butter churn, dental impression
Deathly Silence, 2018
Oil on canvas
Deathly Silence, 2019
Oil on canvas
About
Nicolas Vionnet’s primary medium is acrylic on canvas. His chiefly large-scale works play with space and expanse. Although almost always realistic, his paintings have more in common with abstract images than real landscapes. He paints disruptive grey strips across his clouds and allows coloured surfaces to drip down the canvas in accordance with the laws of gravity. Vionnet is fascinated by such irritations: interventions that approach and create a non-hierarchical dialogue with the environment. This discussion opens up a field of tension, which allows the viewer an intensive glimpse of both these phenomena.
Vionnet uses the same strategy for his installations and objects. Irritation and integration - and a subtle and precise intervention of the object. Vionnet: “The phrase ‘nonhierarchical dialogue with the environment‘ describes my conviction that the artwork itself may never be dominant. Indeed, there should be no hierarchy. Ideally, there is a balance between work and environment. This balance allows the viewer to perceive both components simultaneously.”
Vitae
Nicolas Vionnet, born 1976 in Basel, lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland
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2007 - 2009
Master of Fine Arts, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus University, Weimar (GER)
1999 - 2004
Cooperation Master of Arts in Art and Design Education: teaching qualification for Upper Secondary Education, Academy of Art and Design, Basel (SUI)
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2019
Finalist YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art, HDLU (Hrvatsko društvo likovnih umjetnika), Prsten Gallery, Zagreb (CRO)2019
Winning Artist RADAR - Convocatoria para Artistas, Associazione Radar, San Donà di Piave, Venezia (ITA)2018
Selected by the curatorial commission Premio O.R.A. Prize, Associazione culturale, San Donà di Piave, Venezia (ITA)2016
Shortlisted 4th International Emerging Artist Award, Dubai (UAE)Finalist Taboo Art Prize, Celeste Network, Galleria Poggiali & Forconi, Florence (ITA)
2015
Recommended by the Jury Premio Combat Prize, Blob Art Cultural Association, Livorno (ITA)2014
Top 40 Winner, Juried Competition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art curated by Joanna Szupinska-Myers, California Museum of Photography und Ryan Linkoff, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles (USA)2013
Top 25 Artists, Dave Bown Projects - 6th Semiannual Competition, curated by Marisa J. Pascucci (Boca Raton Museum of Art), Reto Thüring (Cleveland Museum of Art) und Adelina Vlas (Philadelphia Museum of Art), USA -
2021
To be honest, I never wanted to become an electrician anyway, BBA Gallery, Berlin (GER)2019
Gasträume - Pubic Art in Zurich, in collaboration with widmertheodoridis, Tessinerplatz Zurich (SUI)2017
Alles muss rein! Griesbadgalerie / public space, Ulm (GER)2016
Silence III, widmertheodoridis, Zurich/Eschlikon (SUI)2014
FRISCH, Galerie visarte (Visual Arts Association Switzerland), Zurich (SUI)2013
Warum Denken traurig macht, AKKU Kunstkiste, Uster/Zurich (SUI)2011
Silence I, WIDMER+THEODORIDIS contemporary, Zurich (SUI)2008
Keep off the grass, BStU Erfurt (GER)2007
Unwetter, Hippopotamus contemporary, Basel (SUI) -
2022
Art Basel Group Show (online), Alfa Gallery, Miami (USA)Fondation JetztKunst, No.13, Gartenbad Eglisee, Basel (SUI)
Emerging Artists (online), Dodomu Gallery, New York (USA)
Untitled Miami (online), Alfa Gallery, Miami (USA)
2021
Interior, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (SUI)Garage, Community Exhibition Project, Missoula (USA)
Back to Athens 8, International Arts Festival, Galerie widmertheodoridis, Athens (GRE)
Orbit - 13 Art Stations, Eschlikon (SUI)
Twingi Land Art, Landschaftspark Binntal (SUI)
2020
EXH 03 (online), Floorr Magazine, London (GBR)BBA 2020, BBA Gallery, Berlin (GER)
Alles im grünen Bereich?, Kulturort Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur (SUI)
2019
Room 105, widmertheodoridis, Zurich/Eschlikon (SUI)Half A Pound of Art, Galerie Størpunkt, Munich (GER)
YICCA - Final Exhibition, HDLU Pavillon, Zagreb (CRO)
Fashion, Galerie Størpunkt, Munich (GER)
2018
Onyx, Alfa Gallery, Miami (USA)Juried Exhibition, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens (USA)
Boys Will Be Boys, Whitdel Arts, Detroit (USA)
Emerging Artists Vol. 3, BBA Gallery, Berlin (GER)
2017
Turbulence Area, 5th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art (UKR)Contemporary Landscape, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si (KOR)
Half-Truth, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (USA)
2016
Les jours des éphèmeres. Alpines Museum der Schweiz, Bern (SUI)Taboo, Galleria Poggiali & Forconi, Florence (ITA)
2015
Sculpture by the sea, 4th Biennial Aarhus Exhibition, Aarhus (DEN)The open west, The Wilson – Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (GBR)
Pop Linving, Schwartz Gallery, London (GBR)
2014
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (USA)Top 40, LACDA Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles (USA)
Meet! Aus der Luft gegriffen, Städtische Galerie Kubus Hannover (GER)
2013
Trial & Error, Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Tübingen (GER)Shape the Scape - Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Eine Erkundung. WIDMER+THEODORIDIS contemporary, Zurich (SUI). International exhibition series in collaboration with Kit Schulte Contemporary Art (Berlin), Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst (Cologne), Galerie Gilla Lörcher (Berlin) and Galerie Ulrich Mueller (Cologne).
2012
Under A Tinsel Sun, Main Project, III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Central House of Artists, National Center for Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (RUS)
